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EU foreign ministers to discuss Rwanda sanctions options over Congo war

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The EU is moving closer to imposing sanctions on Rwanda after it captured the two major cities in eastern DR Congo, EUobserver has learned.

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Will Trump volatility push Global South into 'stable' EU arms?

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EU red carpet for Israel, despite war-crime stigma

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Use frozen Russian Central Bank assets to pay for peace in Ukraine

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The new faultline in geopolitics will be between those who support the international rules-based order and those who do not.

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The EU will reject any takeover of Gaza or the West Bank in talks with Israel, while signalling business as usual despite the Palestinian death toll and court proceedings in The Hague.

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Europe must overcome its reluctance to make Russia pay for peace — a pragmatic way forward is to consolidate all immobilised assets into a new Brussels-based institution dedicated to Ukraine’s development, minimising risks to the Eurozone while ensuring that Russia bears the cost of its destruction.

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Read all the EU news you should not miss in our daily newsletter. Subscribe to the newsletter here and get three free @euobserver articles per month: https://euobserver.com/register Today, EU watchdog launches conflict-of-interest probe into Microsoft hire:

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EU ready to lower tariffs on US cars to avoid 'period of pain', says trade chief

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EU watchdog launches conflict-of-interest probe into Microsoft hire

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EU energy deals with north Africa replicate neocolonial harms, says report

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Withdrawing equality directive is disgrace for Europe and capitulation to populism

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The EU is prepared to drop its tariffs on American car imports to 2.5 percent in a bid to avoid a broader trade war with Washington, the bloc’s trade chief said on Thursday in Washington.

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The EU's administrative watchdog has launched an investigation into a former European Commission competition official who now has a senior position at Microsoft.

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[From the archive] Drawing on his 30 years’ experience in the Brussels bubble, a journalism professor's top tips on communicating the EU more clearly, concisely and convincingly.

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EU-led oil and gas projects in north Africa have led to soil erosion and water contamination — while offering little benefit to Egyptians, finds Greenpeace in a new report.

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The withdrawing the Horizontal Anti-Discrimination Directive is a disgrace for Europe, a betrayal of our democratic values, and an insult to the millions of our citizen who face discrimination in their daily life. The European Commission has capitulated to populism.

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EU and South Africa to be 'reliable partners' as US attacks lead to diplomatic embrace

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Examining the EU's Competitiveness Agenda — through a social lens

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EU agrees new sanctions, despite Trump's pro-Russia swerve

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Why the new Europol regulation is a Trojan Horse for surveillance

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Hate speech is not free speech, says EU

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Far-right politicians from around the globe, including many MEPs and employees from EU institutions, flocked to Jordan Peterson's anti-globalist, anti-climate event in London this week.

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Top EU and South African ministers vowed to defend "multilateralism" and be "reliable partners" — in thinly-veiled critiques of US diplomacy on Wednesday.

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The European Centre for Workers' Questions (EZA) convened its annual Brussels Conference on Tuesday — focusing on "The EU's Competitiveness Agenda: What's at Stake for Workers and Society?"

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EU countries have adopted a 16th round of anti-Kremlin sanctions, despite a major détente in US-Russia relations.

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The EU Commission is framing these proposals as a humanitarian effort to “curb exploitation” by “ruthless smuggling gangs” — but this disguises a more insidious reality.

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The European Commission says it draws the line on hate when it comes to freedom of speech in Europe.

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'Musk endorsing the AfD is the worst — absolutely the worst. And not very intelligent, because the AfD will not win in Germany. But by taking this position, they’re creating a rift between Germany and the US for the first time in 80 years. It’s a terribly stupid move.'

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Read all the EU news you should not miss in our daily newsletter. Subscribe to the newsletter here and get three free @euobserver articles per month: https://euobserver.com/register Today, Šefčovič 'goes in peace' to Washington in bid to stave off tariff war:

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Šefčovič 'goes in peace' to Washington in bid to stave off tariff war

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Letta: 'Don't cherry-pick my competitiveness report — eat the whole cake'

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No more 'wake-up calls for Europe': stand up or perish

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The Brexit 'reset' - much ado about nothing?

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Ireland among three EU states yet to send asylum plans to commission

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EU trade chief Maros Šefčovič will ‘go in peace’ when he meets US president Donald Trump’s top trade officials in Washington on Wednesday — in a bid to avoid a transatlantic tariff war.

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We met up with Enrico Letta, one of the architects of the EU's competitiveness agenda, to discuss Europe's economic and strategic response to an increasingly hostile world — without its key ally.

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In the realm of security, Europe has been stuck in a snooze loop since the Obama administration. It chose to turn a deaf ear to the US “pivot to Asia” — although it was a subtle yet clear signal that Washington was increasingly shifting its focus toward China and away from Europe.

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In substantive terms little has been achieved. Rather than moving quickly to specify what precisely it wants, the UK has been slow to specify the detail of its ‘asks’, writes professor Anand Menon, director of the UK in a Changing Europe think-tank.

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Ireland, along with Hungary and Poland, have yet to submit their asylum and migration plans to the European Commission.

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Read all the EU news you should not miss in our daily newsletter. Subscribe to the newsletter here and get three free @euobserver articles per month: https://euobserver.com/register Today, EU talks Ukraine peacekeepers, as US and Russia prepare deal:

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EU talks Ukraine peacekeepers, as US and Russia prepare deal

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Technocrat beats rabble-rouser - how African Union election borrowed from Brussels

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The current state of independent media in Ukraine

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Illegal pushbacks in EU 'systematic', finds new report

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Some EU countries have begun pledging peace-keeping soldiers for Ukraine, amid disarray on Russia policy due to US president Donald Trump's freewheeling diplomacy.

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The election of the African Union Commission's new chief on Saturday followed the pattern of elections to its model institution, the EU Commission.

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The EU’s long-term budget in focus This WEEK

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